First Point Group

Lead Fiber Audit & Optical Network Validation Technician

Your expertise keeps critical networks moving.

When a single contaminated connector can impact a multi-million-dollar DWDM transport system, cloud workloads, customer traffic, or mission-critical services, there’s no room for guesswork.

We’re looking for experienced Lead Fiber Audit & Optical Network Validation Technicians to support large-scale hyperscale and carrier-grade data center environments. This is a hands‑on, senior‑level opportunity for someone who knows fiber infrastructure inside and out—and can confidently identify, troubleshoot, validate, and restore complex optical network issues.

If you’re the person others turn to when an optical circuit doesn’t pass, an OTDR trace doesn’t look right, or a fiber impairment needs to be isolated quickly, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll take ownership of fiber validation and troubleshooting across active data center, carrier, and interconnection environments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Perform high-volume, end-to-end fiber circuit audits across multiple DMARC, MMR, and data center environments during a single shift.
• Validate optical paths supporting DWDM, transport, backbone, cloud, and mission-critical network infrastructure.
• Inspect, clean, scope, test, document, and certify fiber circuits using industry-standard testing methodologies and cleanliness standards.
• Conduct optical power measurements using calibrated light sources and power meters at 1310nm and 1550nm wavelengths.
• Analyze optical power readings to identify abnormal loss conditions, excessive attenuation, polarity issues, contamination, and potential physical damage.
• Perform and interpret OTDR testing to identify fiber faults, splice loss, connector defects, reflection events, macro bends, micro bends, and distance-to-fault locations.
• Troubleshoot failed optical circuits and isolate fault domains across patch panels, cross-connects, DMARC facilities, transport paths, and customer infrastructure.
• Differentiate contamination‑related failures from permanent connector, ferrule, or fiber damage and determine the appropriate remediation.
• Inspect MPO/MTP, LC, and SC connectors and validate compliance with fiber cleanliness and optical performance requirements.
• Escalate unresolved transport, optical, or physical‑layer issues according to established operational procedures and technical reporting standards.
• Maintain exceptionally accurate documentation throughout the audit, validation, and remediation process.

What You Bring Required Experience

• 3+ years of hands‑on fiber optics experience within data centers, carrier facilities, colocation environments, central offices, network rooms, or other mission‑critical infrastructure.
• Experience working in high‑density optical environments utilizing LC, MPO/MTP, and SC connectivity.
• Experience with fiber audits, circuit certification, infrastructure validation, or transport network commissioning.
• Strong understanding of DMARC, Meet‑Me Rooms (MMRs), and carrier interconnection environments.
• Ability to independently identify contamination, connector defects, ferrule damage, fiber damage, and optical loss events.

Technical Skills

You should be highly comfortable with:

• Fiber inspection scopes and video probe systems.
• Optical power measurements and acceptable loss budgets for both single‑mode and multimode fiber.
• IEC 61300‑3‑35 fiber cleanliness standards.
• MPO connector inspection across all fiber positions and accurate pass/fail evaluation.
• Insertion loss testing and circuit certification.
• Using measurable test data to evaluate optical network performance.

Preferred Experience

• Hands‑on OTDR testing at 1310nm and 1550nm.
• Ability to read and interpret OTDR traces and event tables.
• Experience locating fiber faults, reflective events, splice issues, connector defects, and attenuation anomalies.
• Ability to isolate failures to specific network segments and determine appropriate corrective action.
• Demonstrated success resolving optical failures during initial troubleshooting efforts.
• Experience supporting transport, DWDM, metro, backbone, carrier, or cloud network infrastructure.

Why This Role Matters

This isn’t simply a fiber testing role.

You’ll be working on infrastructure that supports some of the most demanding digital environments in the world—from hyperscale data centers and cloud platforms to high‑capacity optical transport and ultra‑low‑latency networks.

The work requires precision, technical judgment, discipline, and ownership. Your ability to find the problem, understand its impact, and get the network back to where it needs to be can make a significant difference.

Think you have the expertise?